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Wiktionary
n. (context chiefly British English) (alternative spelling of demobilization English)
WordNet
n. act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops; "demobilization of factories"; "immediate demobilization of the reserves" [syn: demobilization] [ant: mobilization]
Usage examples of "demobilisation".
Civil War, and especially the demobilisation of the Red Army, deepened the crisis and discontent of the peasant masses.
Mainly, however, this deviation is due to the influence exercised upon the proletariat and on the Russian Communist Party by the petty-bourgeois element, which is exceptionally strong in our country and which inevitably engenders vacillation towards anarchism, particularly at times when the condition of the masses has greatly deteriorated as a consequence of the crop failure and the devastating effects of war, and when the demobilisation of the army numbering millions sets loose thousands of peasants and workers, unable immediately to find regular means of livelihood.